Kami Garcia Quotes

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

Do you believe in love after last sight?

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all.

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

words same as always same as nothing when nothing is the same

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"

You're not the only one falling

moments bleed together, no span to time

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.